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Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition

...explicit sexual conduct (so-called “virtual”
child pornography) and images of explicit sexual conduct by adults who resemble minors. The court ruled that the law’s expanded definition of
child pornography as including any image that “appears to be” of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct or that is “presented…in such a manner that conveys the...

cybercrime

With the advent of almost every new media technology, pornography has been its “killer app,” or the application that drove early deployment of technical innovations in search of profit. The Internet was no exception, but there is a criminal element to this business bonanza—
child pornography, which is unrelated to the lucrative business of legal adult-oriented pornography. The...

First Amendment to U.S. Constitution exceptions

Second, a few narrow categories of speech are not protected from government restrictions. The main such categories are incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity,
child pornography, fighting words, and threats. As the Supreme Court held in
Brandenburg v.
Ohio (1969), the government may forbid “incitement”—speech “directed at inciting or producing imminent...

obscenity

...in the English-speaking world; in the United Kingdom, for example, the Protection of Children Act (1978), which was designed to safeguard children from sexual exploitation, effectively outlawed
child pornography. Beginning in the late 1970s, a series of increasingly strict laws in the United States criminalized the possession of photographs of nude children or of children in sexually...